A Bolivian who claimed to have been missing in the Amazon rainforest alone for a month on Tuesday recounted eating insects and worms, collecting water in his boots and drinking his own urine to stay ...

A new study collected tens of thousands of insects from the rainforest canopy in the Brazilian Amazon and found that 60% of the specimens occur at a height of 8 meters (26 feet) and higher. Most of ...

Perched on a leaf 1.5 meters above the ground, a female praying mantis of the species Choeradodis rhomboidea watched as entomologists passed by, flashlights in hand, in the ZF2 Biological Reserve of ...

For most of us, the jungle is a backdrop on a screen, thick green walls, dripping leaves, unseen sounds. Many must have thought that national parks are the only places where you get this kind of vibe ...

National Geographic Explorer Leo Lanna has not spent more than a few days without the company of a praying mantis in the last seven years. His living room is a laboratory, housing 50 to 200 of the ...

Say goodbye to DEET and embrace the future of insect repellents with Grand Tongo's new, powerful and family-friendly collection of Picaridin-based repellents. The Town & Jungle Protection collection ...

When a fig tree falls in the Panamanian rainforest, it calls an army of strangely shaped insects to war. Known as jousting weevils, these beetles have heads shaped like a knight’s lance, which males ...

Claire Gely receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Susan Laurance works for James Cook University that runs the Daintree Rainforest Observatory. Susan Laurance has received ARC funding ...

It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting research in ...